2014 Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) Nominations

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The Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) has revealed its nominations and they’re kind of amazing. Making LA and NY look pretty pedestrian by comparison, the OFCS have opted for some exciting choices in Best Picture like Under the Skin, Mommy, Nightcrawler and Two Days, One Night. Boyhood is still a strong leader in these nominations (as the film has been at all groups so far) with six nominations. Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, which has made a healthy presence early in this awards season, also faired very well here, also grabbing six nominations.

The Canadian Oscar entry Mommy, from Cannes winning wunderkind Xavier Dolan, received mentions in Best Picture, Best Film Not in the English Language, Best Actress (Anne Dorval) and Best Supporting Actress (Suzanne Clément). Two Days, One Night, the Belgian entry for the Foreign Language Film Oscar, came out with five nominations this morning including Best Picture and Best Film Not in the English Language (like Mommy) along with Best Director for the Dardenne brothers, Best Actress for Marion Cotillard (who’s having an amazing critics awards season so far) and Best Original Screenplay.

Interestingly, for as non-Oscary as this list is, the Best Supporting Actor nominations here are very likely to be the exact same five that end up nominated on Oscar morning. The Best Actress category is probably the most exciting with the aforementioned Cotillard and Dorval but also Julianne Moore (Still Alice), Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) and Essie Davis (The Babadook). Considering how well Under the Skin performed though, it is a bit surprising that Scarlett Johansson missed out here.

The full list:

Best Picture 
Boyhood 
The Grand Budapest Hotel 
Ida 
The Lego Movie 
Mommy 
Nightcrawler 
Selma 
Two Days, One Night 
Whiplash 
Under the Skin 

Best Animated Feature 
Big Hero 6 
The Boxtrolls 
How to Train Your Dragon 2 
The Lego Movie 
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya 

Best Film Not in the English Language 
Ida 
The Missing Picture 
Mommy 
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya 
Two Days, One Night 

Best Documentary 
Citizenfour 
Life Itself 
The Missing Picture 
National Gallery 
The Overnighters 

Best Director 
Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel 
Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne – Two Days, One Night 
Ava DuVernay – Selma
Jonathan Glazer – Under the Skin 
Richard Linklater – Boyhood

Best Actor 
Ralph Fiennes – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Brendan Gleeson – Calvary
Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler 
Michael Keaton – Birdman
Timothy Spall – Mr. Turner 

Best Actress 
Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night 
Essie Davis – The Babadook 
Anne Dorval – Mommy
Julianne Moore – Still Alice 
Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl 

Best Supporting Actor 
Josh Brolin – Inherent Vice 
Ethan Hawke – Boyhood
Edward Norton – Birdman
Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons – Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
Jessica Chastain – A Most Violent Year 
Suzanne Clément – Mommy
Agata Kulesza – Ida
Tilda Swinton – Snowpiercer

Best Original Screenplay
Boyhood 
The Grand Budapest Hotel 
Selma 
Two Days, One Night 
Whiplash 

Best Adapted Screenplay 
Gone Girl 
Inherent Vice 
Snowpiercer 
Under the Skin 
We Are the Best! 

Best Editing 
Birdman 
Boyhood 
Gone Girl 
The Grand Budapest Hotel 
Whiplash

Best Cinematography 
Birdman 
The Grand Budapest Hotel 
Ida 
Mr. Turner 
Under the Skin 

Best Non-U.S. Release (non-competitive category)
’71 
10,000 km 
Entre Nós 
Han Gong-ju 
Hard to Be a God 
The Look of Silence 
The Salt of the Earth 
What We Do in the Shadows 
Timbuktu 
The Tribe

Winners will be announced on Monday, December 15, 2014.

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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  • performances i want to see
    Fiennes – The Grand Budapest Hotel
    Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler
    Keaton – Birdman
    Essie Davis – The Babadook
    Phoenix /Brolin – Inherent Vice
    Hawke – Boyhood
    Norton – Birdman
    Tatum Carrel Ruffalo – Foxcatcher
    J.K. Simmons – Whiplash
    Chastain – A Most Violent Year
    Swinton – Snowpiercer

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